Senate Floor!!!
http://www.rnc.org/newsroom/rncresearch/research022603-2.htm 

Hog

The fillibuster is a bunch of crap.

I heard they wanted him to give verdicts on circumstantial cases. His reply was that it isnt fair to prejudge similer cases that may come up in the future. I agree with that reasoning.

He is very experienced. He has a very clean past record. He is of hispanic origin. The largest minority in the country is hispanics this year.

I normally dont ever use the race card, but the Democrats have many times in the past, now this is their chance to put thier money where their mouth is.

If he were a democrat he would have been shot right into the position.

Republicans are in the White house, They are also the senate majority. Why should Democrats block a good man from being nominated just because he is conservative? Most Republicans are conservative. What do they expect, that the next nominee wont be conservative? Hehe! Thats a joke.

If they dont like it, convince the American people of it, and through voting they will have control and do what they like, within reason.

Just my opinion

Mag

he is a right wing zealot and does not belong on the bench. this is a good filibuster.

I'm sure that from your perspective Rick, he is too right wing. Well From mine he isnt. Same guy, different perspectives, doesnt surprise me. We will see!

Mag

Magnafide

it is good to have different perspectives. helps maintain balance

He's so right wing he's about to fall off. Most of the hispanic groups don't support him either because of his politics. The race card doesn't apply...

Chris, most hispanics are democrats. I would bet that hispanics in the Republican party back him. On Hannity & Colmes I've seen support for him by hispanic guests on the show.

What makes him more right wing, than lets say Ashcroft, who is concidered pretty right wing and religious?

He is doing a good job, even though democrats tried thier best to stop him from being appointed by Bush.

Mag

Hey Mag,
Need to check your demographics.
Your statement, "Most hispanics are Democrats" Is not based in fact. Over 60% of hispanics vote Republican. They are much more conservative than other minorities.
Sorry
Had to say something there.
Homebrew

One question though??
What exactly is his current job??
He's not or never has been a judge?
Homebrew

You may be

Homebrew, I dont think you are correct about that.

Where did you get that info? In California hispanics are mostly democrats. Where are you from?

Please send me a link of this fact, I would like to see it. I am hispanic, and dont believe that one. I am also a lonely hispanic republican where I live. I'm in San Jose Ca.

Mag

Hey Mag.
You are right about California.
I am talking about nationwide. The numbers I am quoting, were from the exit polls of the last election.
California was the anomoly. 62% of hispanic voters, in California, voted Democrat. But as a whole, nationwide, 60% of hispanics voted republican.
In Florida, 72% of hispanics voted Republican.
My numbers come from rueters poll after the 2002 election.
Later Homebrew

Homebrew

I'm not questioning that in this election, hispanics voted more for Bush.

What I am saying is that hispanic voters across the country, are overwhelmingly registered as democrats. Thats what I mean. I really dont even think it is close.

Mag

Hey Mag,
I respectfully disagree. Hispanics are more conservative than any other minority. The numbers I quoted have nothing to do with the presidential election, but with the mid term election.
Later
Homebrew

Homebrew, I will look into your figures. I still gotta see it to believe it.

The numbers you quote from exit polls, reflect how someone voted at that particular election. But I'm speaking of voter registration stats.

Mag

Hey Mag,
I think you are going to be suprised.
Later
Homebrew

Gentlemen, I have been all over the web on this one. (Census Bureau, Hispanic voter sites, GOP site). If someone is collecting data on national voter registration by race and party line, they sure are keeping it to themselves. Though I had a lead at Johns Hopkins University but hit a dead link.





#^&@! I hate getting stumped!

Spiny Norman, thanks for trying. I just got online. I'm gonna still give it a shot. I'll post my findings.

Mag

mag is right.
Mostly dems.
But they don't always vote that way.
http://www.hacer.org/current/Hispanic.php 

Thanks tailgater. I've never heard of this Latin America News Report. They look to be nuetral in there reporting of these statistics though.

Homebrew, I pasted a portion of the article that mentions what weve been talking about, but you should read the whole article. Here is a portion of it.

"The poll of 1,329 registered Hispanic voters, 838 non-Hispanic whites and 136 non-Hispanic African-Americans was conducted by telephone from April to June and has a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points. It is part of a broader survey of Latinos in the United States that will be released in December.

Among those interviewed, 45 percent said they were United States citizens who were registered to vote. Of those, nearly half called themselves Democrats, one-fifth said they were Republicans and another fifth labeled themselves independent."

Not my source but, I believe it. Well, Homebrew its been nice debating you. I think this is a pretty close estimate of what I thought.

This is not absolute proof. So maybe you can come up with better evidence. But until then I'm going with this.

Mag